April 22 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and, while there’s so much else going on in the world right now, I wanted to take a minute to recognize the writers who make us feel more connected to the natural world and inspire us to protect it. Fiction and poetry are powerful tools in […]
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Spring has come to Columbia, Maryland, and we should all be out enjoying the warmer weather, soaking in the beautiful blossoms that have sprung up around the region, and enjoying the many live events that were scheduled to mark National Poetry Month. Instead, we’re staying inside, maybe going for a safely distant walk every now […]
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Brian England serves on the Board of Directors for the Little Patuxent Review. In this post, he shares his staff pick from the Winter 2020 issue, David O’Connell’s poem “In Case You Were Wondering.” What made this poem special for me was how it transported me back to a time when we would park on […]
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Earlier this year, we welcomed Alex Duvan to the Little Patuxent Review Board. Alex, who publishes under the pen name Tudor Alexander, was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1950, and moved to the United States in 1977. He holds a master’s degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest and an MBA from the University of […]
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When I started reading Odsburg, the new novel by Matt Tompkins (Ooligan Press), the events it portrays seemed, well…odd.Today, though, we could all be in Odsburg. At the very least, it’s a worthwhile trip while you’re social distancing. The novel is a study of the fictional town of Odsburg, Washington by the world’s first (and only) […]
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